Our Favorite Gambling Quotes

Gambling has been around since the wheel or shortly there after and since then everyone has had something to say about it. Below are some of my all-time favorite gambling quotes.

“I hope to break even this week. I need the money” – anonymous
“I came to Vegas in a $20,000 Cadillac and left in a $200,000 Greyhound” – anonymous

“Remember this: The house doesn’t beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.” – Nick “The Greek” Dandalos

“The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing” – Nick “The Greek” Dandalos

“The only difference between a winner and a loser is character.” – Nick “the Greek” Dandalos

“Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on you face.” – VP Pappy

“If you ain’t just a little scared when you enter a casino, you are either very rich or you haven’t studied the games enough.” VP Pappy

“If you ain’t just a little scared when you enter a casino, you are either very rich or you haven’t studied the games enough.” VP Pappy

“You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.” – Albert Einstein

I love blackjack. But I’m not addicted to gambling. I’m addicted to sitting in a semi circle.
Mitch Hedberg

“If you bet on a horse, that’s gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that’s gaming. If you bet that IBM will go up three points, that’s investing. See the difference?” – Blackie Sherrod, Dallas sportswriter

“You will never go broke showing a profit” Sonny Reizner  and made famous by Steve Scott

“In the queer mess of human destiny the determining factor is luck. For every important place in life there are many men of fairly equal capacities. Among them luck decides who shall accomplish the great work, who shall be crowned with laurel, and who shall fall back into silence and obscurity.” – William E. Woodward

Nine gamblers could not feed a single rooster. – Yugoslav proverb

“Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the rabbit.” – R. E. Shay

“A gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane.” – George Augustus Sala

“I am sorry I have not learned to play cards. It is very useful in life. It generates kindness and consolidates society.” – Samuel Johnson

“In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the keno lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there.” – An anonymous casino boss

“You know what luck is? Luck, is believing you’re lucky…to hold front position in this rat-race you’ve got to believe you’re lucky.” – Stanley Kowalski, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Blackjack is the only casino game an amateur can learn to play and at which he can definitely win.” – Lawrence Revere, author, Playing Blackjack as a Business

“Gambling is the future on the internet. You can only look at so many dirty pictures.” – Simon Noble, an Austrian-based internet bookmaker

“When we put 50 machines in, I consider them 50 more mousetraps. You have to have a mousetrap to catch a mouse.” – Bob Stupak, former Las Vegas casino owner

Noting his mother’s visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. “She got to go to heaven four days early.” – President Bill Clinton

“Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.” – George Ade

“If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I’d probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.” – Michael Ventura

The Wampanoag Tribe has a machine, and they say, “It’s completely idiot proof.” I told them they’ve got it all wrong. I want a machine that is “idiot friendly.” – Former Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld

“If I lose today, I can look forward to winning tomorrow, and if I win today, I can expect to lose tomorrow. A sure thing is no fun.” – Chico Marx

“He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.” – Mark Twain

“When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured ‘em of all their daydreams and delusions. – Minnesota Fats

“Look high, look low, and we see that gamblers actually form the majority of the world’s inhabitants.” – James Runciman, Side Lights

“They gambled in the Garden of Eden, and they will again if there’s another one.” – Richard Albert Canfield

“It can be argued that man’s instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.” – Mario Puzo

“Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined.” – Timothy L. O’Brien, Bad Bet

“They (slot machines) sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.” – Frank Scoblete

“Gambling itself will only end when human nature has changed completely and there are no more bets to win.” – Harold S. Smith Sr., I Want to Quit Winners

“The majority of casino players leave too much to chance when playing in a casino. To put it bluntly, they don’t have a clue as to how to play.” – Henry Tamburin

“A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.” – Paul Newman, The Color of Money

“When a gambler picks up a pack of cards or a pair of dice, he feels as though he has reduced an unmanageable world to a finite, visible and comprehensive size.” – Annabel Davis-Goff, The Literary Companion to Gambling

“Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

“No wife can endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady winner.” – Lord Dewar

“Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.” – Pope John XXIII

“With the perverse logic of a degenerate gambler he figured God was testing his faith.” – Mario Puzo, Inside Las Vegas

“The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.” – Michael Ondaatje, Running the Family

“The smarter you play, the luckier you’ll be.” – Mark Pilarski

“I love Vegas. God knows that I know how to find my way around the buffets in Las Vegas.” – Rick Majerus, Utah Utes college basketball coach

A Smith & Wesson beats four aces. – American Proverb

“Fortune knocks at every man’s door once in a lifetime, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.” – Mark Twain

“It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.” – Joseph Conrad

“We got an education when in 1992 Wolfgang Puck opened Spago in the Forum Shops in Caesars Palace and proved to us that people will line up to get good food.” – Steve Wynn

“But, Steve, if you bring back a $3.49 prime rib buffet, you’ll have lines out the casino front door and down Las Vegas Blvd.” – Mark Pilarski

“I believe in luck. How else can you explain the success of those you dislike?” – Jean Cocteau

“Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn’t play poker.” – Amarillo Slim

“The best bet you get is an even break.” – Franklin Pierce Adams